Her lecture is certainly entertaining and it keeps you awake. But dont expect to rely totally on her lecture for exams (which is all MC). She gave you the big picture for what you need to know in lecture and course reader. But the questions on the exams are mostly a particular example in which you need to apply the ideas behind. I agree with everyone else.. good luck in the guessing game because all the choices kind of make sense and you need some luck to choose the "most appropriate" answer. Even though you know the materials inside out, it's still not a given that you'd be able to answer the questions right. Study guide helps as it has some MCs that are relevant in exams. Dont buy the textbook. I try to read everything in the textbook for midterm but turns out confusing myself.

3 Assigned and Graded Homework which are not very relevant to Exams. Her lectures can be so dry and sometime she tell us about her personal experiences while giving no/few insight of how it relates to Auditing. Lectures are basically all conceptual based and exams are SUPER HARD. Exams are made so that every answer seems correct and tricks students into picking them. NO studying materials(CAN'T even find online) other than the course reading and you basically WON'T know that you failed the class until you receive the grade.

Do not recommend this professor for this particular class.

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Course: Mgmt 123 with Gardner
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Grade received: A

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Took MGMT 123 and MGMT 128 with her Spring 2014. Totally fun and excellent professor. Really enjoyed her classes and Prof. Gardner is very nice and resourceful. Selling her course packet (for assignment and cases) for both classess, $15 each and negotiable! Txt me at 3106140273!

Prof Gardener is very energetic. I can't believe she has been telling the same jokes in all the classes for so many years and never get tired of it. They are not funny but she seems have a lot of fun doing it. Sometime the jokeS do make students laugh because the students laugh at her. She is very discouraging towards people's future academic and career path. She makes the boring material somewhat interesting and easy to understand. The midterm and final is lot more difficult than you would never think. The fact some people say it's guessing game is not exaggerating. My advice to you? Go to lecture, try to have a thorough understanding about the material; Know the course reader inside out; Read the book and do the study guide if you have extra time and DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS BEFORE YOU GET A FULL TIME OFFER BECAUSE IT WILL RUIN YOUR GPA!

So far I have received all As in my accounting classes up to and including 120b. But this 123 class was a class that i couldn't have felt more lost in. Gardner was great at lecturing on individual topics, but I never really learned how everything fit in together. Many times she would just brush over a topic when I felt that it would have helped to teach about it more in depth and connect it into the larger scheme of things. She taught well with acronyms, but having to memorize everything word for word from her reader and regurgitating it on her exams was ridiculous. This is one class that essay type and memorization type people will enjoy taking. I, on the other hand, prefer more numbers oriented practical problems. Also, the 50% exams are a killer since once you slip, im sorry to say, you are dead. These exams have some open ended problems that she will not budge on about interpretation after the exam is graded and done. I ended up with a C+ in the class. I have found that audit is not that bad, but not as interesting as I had believed. I no longer want to be an auditor. Enjoy~

Professor Gardner is a great professor for audit. Both her midterm and final are 50% each. Just study the course reader, and only the course reader, and you\355ll be fine. Don\355t bother getting the textbook, it\355ll just add to your dust collectors. You don\355t really need the study guide either, but I suppose it wouldn\355t hurt to have. She gives great examples of how audit applies to the real world. She tries to make the class fun, and you also learn a lot in her class. She makes sure you learn what you need fo rthe CPA exam and for the audit world. She teaches us what we need to know, not useless junk, and that's the best thing about her class.

Her course is pretty straight forward. You don't really need to read a whole lot out of the book because her course reader is comprehensive in what you need to know and what she lectures in class. She's interesting to listen to and she's pretty enthusiastic about her lectures. She uses plenty of examples and outside references to help you understand the basics of Auditing.

Here's the catch. Her midterm was impossibly hard. The multiple choice questions were way out of left field and were much more comprehensive in their requirement of understanding than what she does in the reader. It's like, you not only have to know the course reader, but you have to know how it would relate to the real world of public accounting... yet she doesn't do that in class. She gives you how the Payroll cycle works on paper and expects you to analyze how it works in a corprorate office on her midterm. Also, her grading is 50% Midterm, 50% Final and a little consideration for "class participation."

So get chummy with her the first few days so she knows who you are and join SAS cuz that's what her "participation" actually comes from.

The fill ins are pretty straight forward but the multiple choice is a killer. Overall she was enjoyable and pretty effective really. Better than some professors but worse than others.